Question about Aerus Vacuums and Cyclonic Suction.

[kirbylux77]

Mark, the Aerus Home Solutions bags, as well as the previous 4-ply bags, are made by a company called HOME CARE INDUSTRIES in Clifton, New Jersey. They market bags to vacuum shops under the tradename "DVC" & in normal retail stores under the tradename "HOMECARE". These bags are EXACTLY IDENTICAL to the previous Electrolux 4-ply design they discontinued in the late 1990's. Aerus has contracted with this company for decades to manufacture their bags. They also make the paper bags for Sears/Kenmore uprights & canisters as well.

Do yourself a favor & just buy the generic bags....they work just as well!

Rob

 

[mark40511]

Gotcha

I suspected such, but wasn't 100 percent sure.

I'm actually glad, because I bought a box of 100 on Ebay for 36.50 (I think), about a year ago when I bought my Epic 6500 so I have P L E N T Y!

I think that electrolux C bags have got to be the cheapest bags (cost wise) of any vacuum bag on the market. I don't know of any other style bag where you can buy so MANY for that cheap, which is why I don't have a problem changing them so often.

 

[rugsucker]

more of Electrolux bag story

I have no reason to disagree that US Elux & Home Care had a relationship.But on a tour of the nearby Bristol,VA Elux factory in the 90s both myself and many vac club members saw the bag line in operation.It was an impressive sight with HUGE rolls of filter liner & outer bag material moving into machines faster then you can see and coming out the other end stacked & counted for packaging.This was a modern factory used by Monroe calculators until Elux moved in about 68.They started with Mo L & B-8 and enlarging & modernising with more operations moved to Bristol until the Old Greenwich CT factory closed.--and then Aerus!

 

[kirbyloverdan]

I also toured the plant around

2006 and they were still making the bags right at the factory as they have always

done so from the begining .

 

[hoovercelebrity]

Pictures from my tour of the Electrolux Factory that is being discussed above... you can see the big rolls of the bag paper in one of the photos. That line wasn't up and running on the day I took the tour. :-(



http://www.vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?9289

 

[goadie12]

@fred

Wow those are awesome pictures thanks for sharing but I have to ask. In picture #3 there is some sort of weird looking vacuum right above the tristars do you remember what it was or have any more information about it thanks? Zach

 

[mark40511]

Can't see the link? It takes me to the off topic is for donating members only. Is that link to an archived thread or something?

 

[trebor]

Luxes on display @ Brtistol ) (Fred's trip)

The peculiar looking Tri-Star-esque vacuum is a never-sold machine called a Sun-Storm, presumably to compete with the Air-Storm.  There were many, many prototypes from the Old Greenwich plant that were simply junked. An article in a Lux magazine in 1973-74 featured pictures of many prototypes that were never produced for sale. Very, very cool looking, some of them. As a branch manager with connections to the factory I asked about these lost designs, the response: (shrug) "probably junked"

 

[hoovercelebrity]

Sorry about that! Searching the off-topic forum is something that only upgraded/paid VCCC members have the capability to do. I had forgotten that.

Here are the pictures again, though -- as they are worth having in a searchable forum.

Exterior shot of the plant.

Me with the sign.

In the lobby!

With a sign in the lobby!

Me with the lobby display of current products!

Lux Commercial Upright Assembly

Canister department -- love the racks of hoses!

Canisters on the line

Centralux Assembly!

Rolls of paper for the bags, and the bag assembly machine in the background...which I unfortunately didn't get to see running. :-(

In the warehouse.

Now for the good stuff... we finished our tour of the factory, and walked to another part of the plant, closer to the front of the building. We maybe went upstairs, and through a door into a hallway lined with these shelves -- filled with all of their cleaners! It was a narrow space, and I don't think these cleaners were all originally displayed here, perhaps they came from another facility when it was closed. Nonetheless, I got some pictures of their displays!

Display #1

Display #2

Display #3 -- by this time Electrolux had acquired Tri-Star, and I seem to recall that they were manufacturing the Tri-Star cleaners in this facility, too.

Display #4 -- Canadian Machines got billing, too!

 

[mark40511]

Wow...thanks : D

That would be soooo COOL to go to a vacuum cleaner factory like that! So then they DO in fact make their OWN bags. Good to know.

 

[luxman107]

Absolutely awesome pictures. How were you so lucky to get a tour. Would love to go on one.

 

[kenkart]

The sad part is!

Im not sure...Jimmy chime in here....but I believe that big factory is now gone, moved to Mexico.

 

[goadie12]

@fred

I am a paid member and it will not let me search off topic why is that thanks ? Zaxh

 

[rugsucker]

Bristol Electrolux factory

Good to see the pics.I had remembered the bag line as running that day but had also toured with fellow Elux employees.In the 1st pic the lobby is above the X and the last addition with the historic displays is above the 1st E.After Aerus most operations went to an existing ABLux/Eureka plant in Texas(ElPaso?).It was probably about as happy a time as Hoover to China,NC furniture factories and PA steel mills have seen.Some operations seen to be back but not like the 'good old days'.It should be said the Aerus machines are fine but when have you seen a branch or salesman??